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Well I'm staying the f*ck away from Somerset!!!
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11-04-2011 2:45pm#1http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1357179.htmHospital sets deadly spider free
British hospital staff have released one of the world's deadliest spiders on hospital grounds, after the chef it bit on the hand took it with him when seeking treatment.
Hospital staff in Somerset released the brazilian wandering spider, deadlier than a black widow and known for its speed and aggression, after mistaking it for an everyday garden-variety arachnid.
The spider normally lives in more tropical climes but is thought to have arrived in England in a box of bananas.
The 13-centimetre hairy creature bit chef Matthew Stevens twice on the hand in his pub kitchen earlier this month in Bridgwater in Somerset.
Mr Stevens, 23, photographed the spider with his mobile phone, thinking it dead after it had fallen in the freezer and been stunned by the cold.
Just to make sure, he poured boiling water over the spider and placed it in a jar, a report in The Times newspaper said. Later he also cooked the spider in the microwave.
But by the time Mr Stevens was taken to hospital in Somerset, dizzy and shaking and with his hand badly swollen, the spider had shaken off the ill treatment and was up and moving again, struggling to get out of the jar.
It was taken with Mr Stevens to the hospital, and then inadvertently released.
The photo Mr Stevens took with his mobile phone was sent to Bristol Zoo in western England, where experts identified the spider while doctors treated the cook with oxygen and a saline drip.
He was released a day later.
Officials at the hospital said the brazilian wandering spider was unlikely to pose a risk to public health since it "would have died very soon after being released" because of the cold.
-AFP
So he froze it, boiled it and nuked it and it didn't die, a bit of wind and rain will hardly do him in.
Feck it all England is now a no go area and i have an excuse now not just that its full of english
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--Kaiser-- wrote: »Here's what one these evil fvckers looks like
http://www.spiderzrule.com/spider307/PICT0645.JPG
hahahaha thank you so much for this pic and thank you mr laptop maker for making my screen this size, showed it to the GF and then when she was looking i used the zoom tool
ah good times. No sex for me tonight though
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hahahaha thank you so much for this pic and thank you mr laptop maker for making my screen this size, showed it to the GF and then when she was looking i used the zoom tool
ah good times. No sex for me tonight though
Baaaaaaaad man. You deserve to get bitten by one and get the five hour horn mentioned earlier and have no way of getting rid of it!!0 -
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This reminds me of my fruit & veg. manager in Bummes Doors. When he started as a teen, he told me how he was packing out (not in
) some banana boxes and a spider bit him on the hand. His whole arm was swollen and was close to being amputed. This would have been in the 80's, so I'm not sure if we were any way equipped with figuring out what the feck to do with an exotic spider bite. 0 -
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1357179.htm
So he froze it, boiled it and nuked it and it didn't die, a bit of wind and rain will hardly do him in.
Feck it all England is now a no go area and i have an excuse now not just that its full of english
That's racism. If there's an Irish version of the BNP then you're probably a member of it. Imagine the uproar on here if an Englishman said the same thing about the Irish.0 -
By the way, that's not the only strange creature to have been seen in Bridgwater, Somerset.
Is it a pig? Is it a turtle? Just what is the mysterious river creature that has left a Somerset town confused and bemused?
By Daily Mail Reporter
6th April 2011
Daily Mail
It was a mysterious sighting that left the locals intrigued.
And before long a large crowd had gathered in Bridgwater to catch a glimpse of the 'unidentified floating object' in the town's river.
But the rumours of a rival to the Loch Ness Monster have not just caught the imagination of residents.
The Somerset town and its mystery invader have become a sensation on internet sites and Twitter.
What could it be? The mysterious object floats down the river in the town - leaving hundreds of people speculating as to what it is and where it came from
People across the globe are now speculating just what the creature might be - and why it managed to cause such a stir.
Crowding on the Town Bridge, hundreds of people peered into the murky waters of the River Parrett to try to discover what the object was.
With such a commotion going on in their town, the local paper seized the opportunity with a lead story on their website about what was happening.
And from there the story took off.
Locals in the town speculated that it was a dead pig or turtle, while others reckoned it was a dolphin.
Another onlooker thought the object was a stone, while one said he believed it was a dog.
The local newspaper website's story was soon inundated with comments asking why such a story could be headline news - and speculating as to the identity.
One wrote: 'Believe me, it will be the most exciting thing that happens in Bridgwater for decades.'
And Twitter users who had noticed that the story was now a trend on the site then added their own views on the story.
Some suspected that a new breed of animal known as a 'turtle-pig', a combination of the two, could be the most likely explanation.
Taking a look: A large crowd gathered on Town Bridge in Bridgwater to try to discover what the unidentified object floating in the river was
And user Matt Crivelli tweeted: 'Bridgwater, well done for reinforcing everyone's stereotypical view of Somerset...'
The town residents shrugged off the mockery, being more concerned with what the object in their river was.
One local, Coral Pople, told the local newspaper: 'I've been here for 45 minutes. Everyone was saying it was a turtle, but it looks more like a pig to me.'
Andrew Coles told the paper he thought somebody had jumped into the water, and heard rumours a body was in the river.
He said: 'I think it was a pig or cow’s head. But I heard people saying ‘look, you can see a hand!’ But I think it was just the animal’s ears flopping around.'
A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset Police said: 'We were made aware of a large number of people looking into the river.'
In 2009 a similar number of onlookers gathered at the bridge after a dead cow was spotted floating near the banks of the river.
Bridgwater has become an internet sensation with news of the mysterious sighting
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